Interface not found
I just upgraded my Mac Minis to Mtn Lion, downloaded V 3.3 of FEAT, and new drivers for my TASCAM interfaces (US-144mkII and US-1800). Everything but FEAT recognizes the interfaces and works properly. The interfaces do not appear at all in the I/O device list. Same problem on two Macs upgraded at different times. Any ideas?
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You are the second user to report this. I have never observed this issue on Mountain Lion, with either the App Store or non-App Store versions of Electroacoustics Toolbox.
Did you download the Toolbox from the App Store? Are you aware of any security restrictions in place on your Macs that might affect the appearance of USB devices in the audio device list?
Electroacoustics Toolbox acquires the current list of audio devices from the Mac OS, so I suspect that there's a fairly simple explanation/solution to this issue.
Thanks,
Ben
If there are any tests you'd like me to try, I'm happy to help.
Attached is HALLab info on the US-1800, FWIW.
I'm sorry for leaving you hanging. I still haven't been able to reproduce the problem, and I have been working with USB and FireWire audio interfaces, including a Tascam US-800.
Does it matter whether you use an admin or non-admin account? Does the problem persist with version 3.4 of the Toolbox? Also, are you running 10.8.4?
Thanks,
Ben
If I set up a new aggregate interface such as "Built-in I/O" of built-in i + O, it appears immediately in Toolbox. Likewise if I plug in a generic USB i/f like an iMic it appears, but neither TASCAM USB interface appears in either of the Minis. Unplugging and re-plugging the TASCAM has no effect.
Each Mac had the OS installed from scratch, so there ought not to be any weird extensions in common. The odd thing is, no other app is having a similar problem, including iTunes, Audio MIDI setup, Audacity, Logic Studio, Garageband, Audio Test, or Fuzzmeasure (trial version), nor does there seem to be any interaction between apps.
Your US-800 is OK with the latest software (2.10)?
I'm still baffled by this. Do you have any other audio apps running when you launch Electroacoustics Toolbox?
The annoying thing is, Toolbox was working on the older Mini under OS 10.6.8. The AppStore updated Toolbox automatically, without notice that the new version was not Snow Leopard compatible. That pushed me to upgrade the OS to 10.8, which forced an update to the TASCAM software, along with a bunch of other stuff. Now everything works except Toolbox and of course old apps which relied on Rosetta.
But the new Mini which shipped with OS 10.8 has exactly the same issue, and with both drivers for the US1800 and the US1xx series. Whatever broke must be in the code specific to OS 10.8.
Is it possible for you to uninstall version 2.10 for the US-1800 and install version 2.0 instead? Maybe it's a Tascam driver issue.
The US-800 seems to use a different software structure. I tried installing it to see what it is like, and it does not install a driver in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/ like the US-1xx series and the US-1800 do. I presume the US-800 has newer firmware which doesn't require installing a plug-in.